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new word from president obama and mitt romney on the latest jobs numbers. the president hailing the 7.8% number as a sign of a recovering economy. a .3% drop from last month. mitt romney, meanwhile, downplaying it. >> we learned the unemployment rate is now at its lowest level since i took office. more americans are entering the work force. more americans are getting jobs. too many of our friends and neighbors are still looking for work or struggling to pay the bills. many of them since long before the crisis hit. we owe it to them to keep moving forward. we've come too far to turn back now. >> you realize the number of people in america, the participation of our adults in the work force were the same as when we got elected our unemployment rate would be about 11%. people in this country are having a hard time finding a job. people in this country are having a hard time making ends meet even if they do have a job. >> the 7.8% figure is the lowest since the president took office and total employment increased 873,000, that is the biggest jump in a monthly nu
new word from president obama and mitt romney on the latest jobs numbers. the president hailing the 7.8% number as a sign of a recovering economy. a .3% drop from last month. mitt romney, meanwhile, downplaying it. >> we learned the unemployment rate is now at its lowest level since i took office. more americans are entering the work force. more americans are getting jobs. too many of our friends and neighbors are still looking for work or struggling to pay the bills. many of them since...
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can't debate so change numbers. >> i wish i could say that the assertion that the obama campaign in chicago convinced the labor department to cook the books was universally decried. it was not. we have much more on the birth of the jobbers, a new american conspiracy theory coming up later in the show. for now the presidential campaign has been reshaped in a number of ways. is is the way obama achieved this milestone is very nonsocialist, actually. under obama the economy has created about $ 967,000 private sector jobs. so if obama is in fact a socialist, he's not very good at it. second in, romney's standard stump speech, we've now had quote 43 street months with ununemployment over 8%. we are now under 8%. and third, this is probably the most important for the campaign. the debate was only two days ago. today is friday. the debate was wednesday. but this is a big enough jobs report, striking enough, that it has turned the whole national conversation. romney could have used a few more days of momentum. now instead of having a weekend where anyone can talk about his debate, the jobs report i
can't debate so change numbers. >> i wish i could say that the assertion that the obama campaign in chicago convinced the labor department to cook the books was universally decried. it was not. we have much more on the birth of the jobbers, a new american conspiracy theory coming up later in the show. for now the presidential campaign has been reshaped in a number of ways. is is the way obama achieved this milestone is very nonsocialist, actually. under obama the economy has created about...
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i think that obama administration knows it can put out phony numbers and the only place you will find that out is talk radio and fox news which is dismissed as right wing because the media is in the tank for the president. >> moving on the to vice-presidential debate coming up on thursday, what are your expectation and you must be excite to see how mr. ryan performs. >> i continuing will be similar to the presidential debatement biden makes a lot of gaffes and a lot of people think it would be a blow out. i would warn them septemberor biden who is in the game for a long time and polished politician and charming. and i don't think it will be as obvious of a blow out as it was between romney and obama. but there is gaffe baggery and facts and figures. >> and ryan for not perceived as a policy wonk. and he has to connect with the people one on one. >> he does, like romney, they are like ward cleaver charm cute and don't seem threatening and good husbands and fathers and nothing that seems mean about them. i expect it to be similar though it will not be as good as romney and obama. they w
i think that obama administration knows it can put out phony numbers and the only place you will find that out is talk radio and fox news which is dismissed as right wing because the media is in the tank for the president. >> moving on the to vice-presidential debate coming up on thursday, what are your expectation and you must be excite to see how mr. ryan performs. >> i continuing will be similar to the presidential debatement biden makes a lot of gaffes and a lot of people think...
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obama can spin the numbers any way he likes, but this is not an economic recovery in a meaningful sense. but do you think that the average person digs into numbers like this, or do you think they just see 7.8% sand say well, that's good. >> i think they look at their own lives and the lives of people around them. and i think you pointed out in the first portion of the show, a lot of the swing states, a lot of the battleground states have very high unemployment rates. so someone sitting in nevada, for example, where they have double-digit unemployment is not going to be so impressed by a bunch of figures. i think what needs to be done on both sides is for them to explain how it is they plan on bringing that number down. for the person who sun employed, or for the person who is -- and this is a larger subset of people who has to have taken part-time work because they can't get full-time work, i think they want to hear how things are going to get better. i think this goes back to the point that i made. rather than simply saying the other guy is lying, the president has to come forward with
obama can spin the numbers any way he likes, but this is not an economic recovery in a meaningful sense. but do you think that the average person digs into numbers like this, or do you think they just see 7.8% sand say well, that's good. >> i think they look at their own lives and the lives of people around them. and i think you pointed out in the first portion of the show, a lot of the swing states, a lot of the battleground states have very high unemployment rates. so someone sitting in...
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obama 60%. romney 46%. what do you make of those numbers? >> i think we'll have to see how those numbers change over the course of the next few weeks i don't know that those numbers actually reflect what voters got to see. the president has been the president for four years. by and large, mitt romney is still being introduced to the american people because they don't really pay attention until after the conventions. and what happens in the next couple debates, governor romney has to keep performing because surely the president will up his game in the next couple of debates. >> brett o'donnell, appreciate your time. thank you. >> good to be with you. >>> the counterattack jewish and christian leaders are launching in response to this controversial ad. the wheels of progress haven't been very active lately. but because of business people like you, things are beginning to get rolling. and regions is here to help. making it easier with the expertise and service to keep those wheels turning. from business loans to cash management, we want to be y
obama 60%. romney 46%. what do you make of those numbers? >> i think we'll have to see how those numbers change over the course of the next few weeks i don't know that those numbers actually reflect what voters got to see. the president has been the president for four years. by and large, mitt romney is still being introduced to the american people because they don't really pay attention until after the conventions. and what happens in the next couple debates, governor romney has to keep...
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the new jobs report has triggered a backlash among critics of president obama. the unemployment rate fell to 7.8% in september, a drop of 0.3% from august. the numbers appear good on the surface, but just too good for jack welch, a former ceo of general electric tweeted this. unbelievable jobs numbers. these chicago guys will do anything. can't debate so change numbers. well, welch later came on cnn's a360 and said if he had that tweet to do all over again he would have added one thing. >> so many politicians these days are saying like michele bachmann will say something that factually is not correct or provable and then we'll say look, i'm asking the question. is it responsible to say i'm asking the question but to say the chicago guys will do anything, oh, i'm just asking the question. >> should have put the question mark at the end like i did last night. a question mark would have been better at the back of that. >> okay. so you are kind of backing away. >> i'm not backing away. i'm not backing away. >> you wish you would amend your tweet. >> wish i had a que
the new jobs report has triggered a backlash among critics of president obama. the unemployment rate fell to 7.8% in september, a drop of 0.3% from august. the numbers appear good on the surface, but just too good for jack welch, a former ceo of general electric tweeted this. unbelievable jobs numbers. these chicago guys will do anything. can't debate so change numbers. well, welch later came on cnn's a360 and said if he had that tweet to do all over again he would have added one thing....